CNN Films and HBO Max have commissioned a new documentary about Little Richard, from Emmy-winning director Lisa Cortés (All In: The Fight for Democracy) of Cortés Filmworks. The film, Little Richard: I Am Everything (w/t), will take a deep dive into the life and career of the iconic musician, who did what he felt, and…
Documentaries don’t get much more timely than this.
CNN Films has released the first trailer for Navalny, director Daniel Roher’s feature doc about Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, and set an April 24 premiere date on CNN. The cable news outlet will air the feature with limited commercial interruption starting at 9…
Ethan Hawke is a student of the art of acting, a four-time Oscar nominee with a deep appreciation for the craft at which he has excelled for more than 30 years. His latest project, the six-part documentary The Last Movie Stars, gives him the opportunity to examine the work of two acclaimed figures from an earlier era…
Congresswoman Gabby Giffords of Arizona was a rising star in the Democratic Party when she was she was shot during a meeting with constituents near Tucson in 2011. Six people were killed in the attack and Giffords barely survived a severe injury to her brain.
Giffords' recovery and return to activism are the subject…
Having its premiere today at SXSW, this CNN Films theatrical documentary Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down is a truly inspirational offering an almost verite kind of fly-on-the-wall account of what can only be termed as a comeback story like no other. In 2011 Giffords, an Arizona congresswoman and rising star in the…
Tell-all documentary feature Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over is to be one of the first major films to launch on CNN+.
CNN Films struck a deal to acquire the highly-rated documentary for the streamer, which will launch in the Spring.
Debuting at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival and launching for…
Julia Child knew her way around a sauce the way Leonard Bernstein knew his way around a sympathy, the way Patrick Mahomes knows his way through a defense. That is to say, with panache.
The renowned cookbook author and pioneering TV personality is the subject of the documentary Julia, directed by Betsy West and Julie Co…
Oscar-nominated RBG directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen are to tell the extraordinary story of U.S. congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ remarkable perseverance following an assassination attempt.
West and Cohen are teaming once again on Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down from CNN Films, Time Studios, Storyville Films and…
CNN Films and HBO Max are partnering for a documentary on anti-corruption Russian government opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Described as a documentary thriller and shot as the story unfolded, Navalny follows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During…
Arthur Ashe achieved greatness on the tennis court, becoming the first African-American major champion in his sport.
But what he accomplished off the court was even greater—advancing civil and human rights, attacking apartheid in South Africa, and destigmatizing HIV-AIDS. His life, tennis career and activism come into…
Arthur Ashe is an icon in the tennis world, breaking barriers to become the first Black male champion of three Grand Slams: the Australian Open; the U.S. Open; and, most famously, beating Jimmy Conners in 1975 to win Wimbledon. But on the other side of the net is Ashe’s work as an activist, which becomes the focus of C…
In the early 1960s, American "cuisine" meant for convenient but fairly nasty stuff. Example: this recipe for "Crusty Tuna Surprise." Take two cans of StarKist Tuna, mix with cheese soup, "then top it crisply with Kellogg's Corn Flakes Crumbs." Yum.
Then Julia Child arrived, armed with sauce pans and cast iron…